eeeekkkkk, scary huge emerald crab

So, I thought my emerald crab died. I pulled him out of the tank a few months ago and gave him his funeral. Well, tonight, I was feeding the ponies and this HUGE crab came crawling out of the cave. I mean hes a couple inches across! His mouth is the size of a large lima bean. Ugh, will this thing eat living creatures? I'm so worried for my ponies!
:shock: How do you get him outta there?

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If you want to get him out - pretty easy to bait him out with a big hunk of fresh meat. Try the Yote method and tease him into a net with a string attached to the handle. When he's all the way in the net, jerk it out in one quick motion.

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Build a small crab trap from a soda bottle. Cut the top off, turn it around and put some meat in there, near the cave. Make the opening big enough for him to crawl in. Then lights out and you go on fire watch and wait for him to crawl in there. Then pull the bottle out. I forgot to say tie a string to the neck so you can pull it out when he crawls in there.

Put fish food in the trap then. I have a predator crab in one of my rocks. I can only see his legs, he wont come out. i bought a small yellow baby tang the other day and he's gone now. So I know he slept in that rock and now....

My emerald is one of my favs in my tank. He's always out munchin on stuff. I would say he's about 1 inch across. He'll throw his claws up at passing fish but he's soooo slow I doubt he would ever catch anything even if he wanted to.

I'll bet mine is close to three inches if you stretch out his legs. I think the only reason I saw him last night is that class ran late and I was feeding the ponies so late. My crab bolted pretty quick when he saw me and he would have absolutely no problem getting one of my horses. grrrrrrrr

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